2MTL 100: Retcons, Authorial Intent, and "Getting Together"

POSITED: If there's nothing in the show to contradict it, it's not a "retcon." (RETroactive CONtinuity, a term that entered SF fandom from the comics world.) ALSO POSITED: If there IS something in the show…then it IS. WARNING: The words "Doctor" and "Rose" are used.

None of these are meant to mean they dated… or they were "going steady". To me trying to say the 10th Doctor and Rose were cheapens the concept of love, and it also cheapens the concept of the Doctor/companion relationship.

But the Doctor and Rose were also IN love, according to authorial intent and a hell of a lot of canon pointers. That doesn't "cheapen" anything about previous companions. Instead it provides an extra dimension to the storytelling that brought in a lot of fans who had never been interested in Who before and helped return the show to the top of the BBC.

And RTD demonstrated that he and his stable of writers were perfectly capable of writing the contrast of a wonderful platonic love between the Doctor and Donna.